H. D. Moe is considered one of the most important of the "baby beat" poets. Raised in Oregon

Oregon

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 and California

California

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, he served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War

Korean War

The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

, and later attended school on the G.I. Bill.

Moe has studied at various times with a number of famous writers, including Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.-Biography:...

, Philip Whalen

Philip Whalen

Philip Glenn Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and close to the Beat generation.-Biography:...

, and Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud

Bernard Malamud was an author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the great American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford...

. Suffering from dyslexia

Dyslexia

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, he developed his own style of "jazz poetry

Jazz poetry

Jazz poetry is poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation". During the 1920s, several poets began to eschew the conventions of rhythm and style; among these were Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and E. E. Cummings...

", with vivid imagery and unusual juxtapositions.

His poetic activities have included publishing Lovelights, The Erotic Poetry

Erotic Poetry

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/Art Newspaper of San Francisco (at one time the largest poetry publication in the world), curating two art galleries, and coordinating the San Francisco Poetry Festival in 1978. He has published over 30 books of poetry, which include Ozone Allah, The Logic Of Snowflakes, Quarks Heart, Immortal Amebas Jigsawpuzzle Electron Gambling Hong Kong – The Cup Lands On The Saucer, and Muse News (published in 1988 by City Lights

City Lights

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 of San Francisco).

Moe currently lives in Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...

, California, where he contributes to Beatitude Press and edits the Berkeley Review of Books. He has recently published a book of philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 entitled How to Be God Now, and is working on a work of Utopian fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 entitled Royal Poetopia and the Wild Law Civilization. He participates in numerous poetry readings throughout the Bay Area, and hosts the "Living Philosophers" discussion group at the North Berkeley Senior Center.

References:
H. D. Moe's website